K-type star · orange

HR 8941

HR 8941 is an orange in the constellation Andromeda 600 ly from Earth. Its surface is about 4,777 K, about 0.8 times the Sun's surface temperature, and it shines at 93.07× the Sun's brightness. At magnitude 6.3 it is within reach of 50 mm binoculars; the light you see left it 600 years ago.

600 lybrightness mag 6.25G8II

Also catalogued as HD 221661 · HIP 116292

4,777 K
temperature
6.25
apparent magnitude
93.07× ☉
luminosity vs Sun
G8II
spectral type
Distance & comparison with our Sun
600 years
at light speed from Earth
0.83×
as hot as the Sun
93.07×
the Sun's light output
-0.07
absolute magnitude
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HR 8941K-type
Sky regionAndromedathis direction
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BINOCULARS NEEDED
Brightness mag 6.3To see it 50 mm binocularsLook toward Andromeda

Star data from the HYG database v4.2 (Astronexus, CC BY-SA 4.0). Temperature and colour computed by gravityfinder from the B-V colour index; the illustration is generated from that temperature, not a photograph.